Wagon-loading device.



BATENTED NOV. 12, 1907. G. H. HEFTA. WAGON LOADING DEVICE.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1'], 1907.

GUNDER' H. HEFTA, OF LEEDS, NORTH DAKOTA.

WAGON-LOADING DEVICE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1907.

Application filed June 17,1907. Serial No. 379,330.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GUNDER H. HEFTA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leeds, in the county of Benson and State of North Dakota, have invented cerfrom the carriage 7, is mounted a small tackle block 14 tain new and useful Improvements in Wagon-Loading Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved loading attachment for wagon boxes, the word box being used in a broad enough sense to include racks, or other form of vehicle body, andto the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined inthe claims.

The improved loading device, while capable of general use in loading material, is especially designed for loading shocks of grain or cocks of hay from the ground into the wagon box or rack.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings; Figure 1 is a plan view showing the wagon box in the form of a rack, and having my improved loading device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1, some parts being broken away; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The numeral 1 indicates a wagon box in the form of a rack, the same having long corner posts 2 that are rigidlytied together at their upper ends by parallel beams To the intermediate portions 01 these beams 3 is rigidly secured a transversely extended rail supporting beam 4 to which a carriage supporting rail 5 is secured by small depending brackets 6. Both the rail 5 and the supporting beam 4 project outward beyond one side of the rack. A small carriage or traveler 7 is mounted to move on the rail 5 with its wheels 8 arranged to clear the rail supporting brackets 6. A hoisting cable 9 is attached at one end to the carriage 7, is passed over a sheave 1O thereon, thence under the rail 5 to the opposite side of the rack where it is passed over a guide sheave 11 on the adjacent side post 2, thence down along the said post 2 and under a guide sheave 12 on the lower portion thereof, and thence along the bottom of the rack back to that side of the rack from which the rail 5 and beam 4 project. As shown, the whiffletree 13 is attached to the lower end of the hoisting cable 9 so that a horse may be attached thereto.

On the looped portion of the cable 9, which depends to the depending hook of which is applied the grapple or fork 15 of the usual or any suitable construction. The usual or any suitable means, not shown, would preferably be provided for holding the carriage stationary on the outer portion of the rail 5 while the cable is being raised with its load, and for releasing the said carriage when the load has been raised above the sides of the rack.

It is evident, that when the cable or fork 15 is drawn downward and applied to a shock of grain or cook of hay, or to any other article to be loaded on to the wagon box, and the lower portion of the hoisting cable 9 is drawn outward by means of a horse, hand-power, or

other means, the said load will be lifted and carried over the sides of the wagon box or rack to a point above the rack, where it may be easily deposited by giving slack to the said cable.

The device above described, while extremely simple, is eilicient for the purposes had in view, and makes it possible to rapidly and easily load wagon boxes or racks.

The term cable is herein used in a broad sense to include a rope, a wire, or other form of flexible connection.

What I claim is:

The combination with a wagon box or rack having vertically extended posts and a transversely extended rail supporting beam rigidly secured to said posts and extending transversely of said box or rack and projecting at one side thereof, of a rail extending below and rigidly supported from the intermediate and projecting end portions of said beam, a carriage mounted to travel on said rail, 21 hoisting cable attached at one end to said carriage, extended over a guide on said carriage, thence over upper and lower guides on one of the extended posts at the opposite side of said box or rack and provided at its extended lower end with a device to which a draft animal may be hitched, and a cable or fork suspended below said carriage by a looped portion of said hoisting cable, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GUNDER H. HEFTA.

Witnesses:

A. J. F. VoIen'r, VICTOR WAnnno'Pn. 

